Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Catherine's Glynnese was often far less daundering than her normal English. Her description of William's reaction to the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria is a case in point: "A pamphlet nearly written he has been boiling over at the horrors and at the conduct of the Government very proud that England's voice is speaking its great heart throbbing and in this pumped-out moment with no backing it speaks...
...John Raskolnikov Gilson, an eighth-grade schoolboy who wants to sleep with Miss McGeeney, his English teacher. In order to make his views known ("How sick I am of literary bitches. But they're the only kind that'll have me"), the boy has written a pamphlet that sounds very like West's own credo: "I always find it necessary to burlesque the mystery of feeling at its source; I must laugh at myself, and if the laugh is 'bitter,' I must laugh at the laugh. The ritual of feeling demands burlesque...
...object of all these efforts was the acquisition of a liberal education--an undefined product which has replaced God as a name for what we want but have not got. The pamphlet said that he was being trained to apply general knowledge in particular situations, and President Pusey told him that he was being trained to read books and defend the community of learning against the attacks of antiintellectuals. Unfortunately, nobody told him how or why these things could or should be done. Perhaps that was why, four years later, Rumplestiltskin graduated as puzzled and lost as when...
WHILE THE QUOTATION FROM ME ["a martini before dinner can put a new face on things"] IN THE LICENSED BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES' PAMPHLET ON WHICH YOU REPORT [MAY 27] IS CORRECT, AND IS TAKEN FROM MY BOOK "BEYOND ANXIETY," I MUST POINT OUT THAT IT IS SET IN THE CONTEXT OF A CHAPTER WHICH WARNS AGAINST THE DANGERS BOTH OF ALCOHOLISM AND OF ESCAPE FROM INNER PROBLEMS BY THE USE OF ALCOHOL...
Behind the Amis vogue is a conscious retreat from Utopia. The "new men'' have withdrawn from politics-and politics has withdrawn from them. Amis himself spelled it out in a pamphlet entitled Socialism and the Intellectuals. Fumblingly written but painfully sincere, it may be the first authentic manifesto of an apolitical literary age. Amis confesses that he finds politics a bore, and that he votes the Labor ticket as a kind of conditioned reflex-two admissions which infuriated British Laborites and old-line liberals. Analyzing his own apathy, Amis makes the pertinent reflection that intellectuals are political romantics...